This may be a silly question, but why not just use makefiles and have
people compile from a command prompt with nmake? Is it just a desire to
be able to edit code within the VS IDE?
-David Waite
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:43 AM, Brandon Ehle wrote:
> The win32 .dsp generator is working. Here's the link if anyone wants
> to check it out, I won't bother with a patch until after 0.16 is
> released.
>
> http://fishbowl.digitalbytes.net:81/svn/scripts/buildwork/
>
> A couple of notes:
>
> * Do we want to store the .dsp, .vcproj, & .bprs in build/win32/msvc6,
> build/win32/vcnet, etc. or store them in subversion/libsvn_subr,
> subversion/clients/cmdline like we do now?
>
> * Currently static builds are the default. This is because DLL
> building on windows is fairly broken.
>
> * I am copying config.cw to config.c before running the .dsp generator
> as the glob won't find config.c if its not there. My recommendation
> to cleanup the config.cw is to move it into a subdirectory of
> libsvn_subr/win32 and rename it to config.c in that directory, then
> add a win32 hook to add that dirs files only when building for win32.
>
> * The VC.NET stuff is a mess and doesn't really work. Most of the
> barriers to getting this finished are finding workarounds for VC.NET
> bugs. Even with non-autogenerated projects, the linker also tends to
> crash alot compiling subversion, so people should probably hold off
> compiling subversion with VC.NET until MS releases a patch for the the
> linker.
>
> * Borland Builder isn't finished yet.
>
>
>
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